Visions Of Mana Devs Ouka Studios Gutted And Shut Down The Same Day The Game Released (Today)
Visions Of Mana Devs Ouka Studios Gutted And Shut Down The Same Day The Game Released (Today)
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Well, there goes my hope of getting this game on Switch someday.
Welp, just bought the game yesterday and it’s fun. Does that mean no patches ever?
Wow. I added this to my wish list yesterday, but I am not buying a game to give Square Enix money with the guarantee of no additional patches either.
So what are SE’s plan from now on? From what I understood is that they are going to focus more on important games and that they canceled many side projects, right? So maybe this was the plan all along for this studio to be shut after the game releases? I’m really worried for the company. Never would I guess that Sega would be doing better than them after the Dreamcast.
Ouka Studios? This is the first I’ve heard of it. Squeenix’s CBU 4 is supposed to be the people making Mana games. They really let some other team do it? This is why devs are failing us!
That’s brutal. I’m not usually one to comment on the business side of gaming but what a feels bad story.
Before everyone starts blaming SE here, this isn’t exactly their fault. Yes, they have had pretty shady business practices and mismanagement in the past, but this is Chinese investors closing their foreign based studios in an attempt to make more domestic hits such as BM:W.
>Tencent Holdings Ltd. and NetEase Inc. are reconsidering or scaling back many of their investments in Japanese studios, after years of spending yielded few hit games and the Chinese market staged a comeback.
>NetEase has cut all but a handful of jobs at its Ouka studio in Tokyo, according to people familiar with the matter.
I’ve seen more crying about no one playing a crap live service like concord than this which is probably bombing too and it reviewed like 12 points higher. Where’s all the press articles about this game?
Game looks beautiful. And more interesting than Wukong for sure. Shame.
Well…… This sucks
I’m so tired of AAA rug pulls. Return gaming to the indie devs. The era of investor-backed gaming needs to end. Game studios should not be traded like commodities.